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Through a variety of question types featuring primary source documents, images, maps and videos, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to wager points, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts. Students can access their ebook from InQuizitive if they need help.
The History Skills Tutorials are four interactive, online modules that provide a framework for analyzing primary and secondary source documents, images, and maps that can be found in the text.
“Thinking Like a Historian” exercises—available for every chapter—give students opportunities to engage with historical interpretations. Each exercise examines a major interpretive issue through the lens of primary source evidence and historians’ interpretations of that evidence.
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History Skills Tutorials provide guidance for students and model how to analyze primary source documents, images, and maps.
Most instructors assign the tutorials as primers that prepare students to analyze primary sources, secondary sources, and maps throughout the course. They can also be assigned as a scaffolding assignment prior to the Thinking Like a Historian activities (see the After Class section).
Instructors tell us that assigning the tutorials for 5-10% of a homework or participation grade ensures that all students complete the activities.
Read the interactive ebook.
InQuizitive adaptive learning activities help students with reading comprehension in addition to primary source and map analysis. This low-stakes assessment promotes a growth mindset for success, and wagering points helps students metacognitively identify what they need to review.
Instructors tell us that assigning InQuizitive for 10–15 percent of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important concepts. Integration ensures that grades flow into your LMS gradebook.
Thinking Like a Historian online exercises illustrate how historians’ interpretations of evidence differ and evolve and help students use primary sources to construct their own arguments.
Writing Prompts re available for each Thinking Like a Historian exercise and ask students to articulate their own interpretations based on the evidence presented.
Norton’s Online Reader provides over 600 additional primary sources with introductory headnotes, discussion questions, and suggested activities.
Instructors tell us that assigning Thinking Like a Historian exercises for a small percentage (5—10%) of the overall grade or a homework grade ensures students complete the exercises. LMS integration allows the grades to automatically flow into your gradebook. You can assign these by chapter or choose a select number to assign throughout the term.
The Writing Prompts reside in your LMS where you can choose to deploy them as you see fit.
Norton Testmaker offers high quality assessment to build tests easily, with questions tagged to Bloom’s and APA guidelines. Norton Testmaker makes it easy to customize tests online and deliver them through your LMS or on paper.
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